Federal Power ActU.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - Electric utilities |
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49 Stat 70th Congress accounts administrator affected agencies amended August 26 application attorneys bonds Bonneville project Bureau centum Chief of Engineers Colorado River compact commerce Commis Congress construction contracts Corporation cost deem electric energy facilities Federal Power Act Federal Power Commission Federal Water Power find necessary FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION hereby authorized improvement Interior investigation issued June 23 jurisdiction laws license hereunder licensee or public licensees and public maintenance ment mission municipality National Park navigable waters necessary or appropriate notice officer operation opportunity for hearing Peck project permit person plans prescribe project or projects Provided further public bodies public interest public lands public utility Public Utility Act purchase purposes rate schedules rates and charges reasonable rehearing repeal reports reservoir River and Harbor sale of electric Secretary Secretary of War securities sion specifications thereof thereto tion Treasury United Water Power Act
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Page 10 - That the project adopted, including the maps, plans, and specifications, shall be such as in the Judgment of the Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of water power development, and for other beneficial public uses, including recreational purposes...
Page 43 - Commission, on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him, may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination...
Page 43 - Any person may be compelled to appear and depose, and to produce documentary evidence, in the same manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and produce documentary evidence before the Commission, as hereinbefore provided.
Page 25 - That nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting or intending to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation...
Page 51 - If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.
Page 33 - ... the Commission may make such order with reference thereto as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after it had become effective.
Page 6 - Congress and to submit therewith recommendations for additional legislation; and to provide for the publication of its reports and decisions in such form and manner as may be best adapted for public information and use.
Page 64 - Such bonds 63 shall be fully and unconditionally guaranteed both as to interest and principal by the United States, and such guaranty shall be expressed on the face thereof, and such bonds shall be lawful investments, and may be accepted as security, for all fiduciary, trust, and public funds, the investment or deposit of which shall be under the authority or control of the United States or any officer or officers thereof.
Page 7 - An Act to create a Federal Power Commission ; to provide for the improvement of navigation ; the development of water power ; the use of the public lands in relation thereto ; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes," and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 52 - That such structures may be built under authority of the legislature of a State acoss rivers and other waterways the navigable portions of which lie wholly within the limits of a single State, provided the location and plans thereof are submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers and by the Secretary of War...